Thursday, November 15, 2007

Maureen Ryan reports on the vast public support the WGA has in this strike with the corporations. The WGA has released a statement thanking the public for supporting them.

If you're planning to join the BSG writers at Universal on Friday, I would suggest people consider taking the MTA Red Line. Universal City station deposits you right in front of Universal, and it's just a short walk over to Gate 2 where the BSG writers will be. Map. Map. Google Map.

In some fun non-strike news, we had a special private screening of the DVD version of RAZOR, the upcoming BSG film, this evening. It was a stunning high def presentation, a total knock-out. The TV version is great, but the uncut DVD version is really something. Coming VERY soon to DVD stores near you!

5 comments:

Savoie Faire is Everywhere
said...

I'm really glad that so many BSG fans will be heading out to support the writers. I hope that other large fan communities will see fit to do the same.

One thing that keeps getting missed in the coverage of this is that without WGA writers content will continue to be produced - BUT (BIG BUT) it will be awful tripe not worthy of airing on the dog food channel.

If the strike goes long enough (say 10 months) watch how the quality of programs slowly fades starting on basic cable and eventually to broadcast.

Andreesen's quote about applying VC sensibility to the creation of creative has a great deal of merit. If someone with a nice set of Co-Jones (or a large wallet (cough, cough) Mark Cuban (cough) were able to put something like this together it could revolutionize entertainment in much the way HBO revolutionized TV.

Mika Salmi (Founder of AtomFilms - now with Viacom, I believe) set up a model like this for content producers initially on AtomFilms. Small time content producers were able to recoup expenses or (god forbid) make a profit.

Wouldn't it feel great to box out the Disney/ABCs, Viacoms, CBSs, and NBC Universal's of the World? It won't happen, but it would force those pudknockers to adapt.